On 11 Mar 2005 02:18:33 GMT, John Bokma <postmaster@castleamber.com>
wrote:

>SEO Dave wrote:

>>>Doubt it. Why would Google have a server dat gives grey PR for 5% of
>>>*your* sites?
>>
>> There is evidence (though I've had no reason to follow it up) that
>> there are at least two PR servers
>
>Knowing Google's love with redundancy, and simple math, probably would
>tell you there are many many more.
>
>> (which you'd expect with the amount
>> of queries they must get a day).
>
>Just 2?

I'm going on what I know, not what I assume to occur. I know some
people are getting different PR data, therefore there must be at least
2 servers.

If you want me to assume, I'd assume there are a lot more than 2
servers used.

>> If there are multiple servers at times some will be more up to date
>> than others and so different people will see different PR results.
>
>Yup, and glitches, as I already wrote. No toolbar bugs :-D.

LOL.

If you want my opinion I'd go with glitches not bugs, but that doesn't
exclude the possibility.

>> Also Google is known to test things out like algo changes on some
>> servers earlier than others, so why not the same with the PR toolbar
>> readings.
>
>Could be, doubt it.

Why not? PR is part of the search algo and though the PR we see via
the toolbar probably isn't used in the search calculations, when they
change the PR formula in the search algo they probably do a
corresponding change in the toolbar data.

>> Some here have experienced this with what has been jokingly referred
>> to as a predictive toolbar. They see different PRs than the rest of
>> us, usually noticed when a big change occurs.
>
>But again, it's weird that one gets grey PR for 5% of *his* sites.

It was a typo, he meant pages not sites.

If it was a glitch wouldn't you expect to see all pages PR grey when
the toolbar user experiences the glitch, sounds a bit like a bug to me
:-)

David
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